DEADECTIVES

Dear Reader, I'm seeking representation for DEADECTIVES, a New Adult urban fantasy complete at 95,000 words. It is the first book in a planned four-book series and has a complete arc of its own. The remaining books are outlined, with book two partly drafted. It will appeal to readers of fantasy series blending humor and found family, such as Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus and Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows. Vampires go missing all the time, but Ethel Vauchier’s recently turned relative Leo isn’t supposed to be one of them. What’s a 600-year-old girl to do but embark on a bad-decision-fueled road trip, enlisting help from a werewolf who’d rather kill her, a cursed pirate who can’t die, and a ghost who keeps forgetting he’s dead? Ethel thinks the least interesting thing about her is that she’s a vampire. She’s read about a million books, has firsthand experience of many great moments in history and possesses a great sweater collection. That all loses importance when her a-hundred-times-great-grandson Leo goes missing, shortly after she turned him. The only lead to find him is the report of a witch, tracking him to an abandoned haunted hotel. Setting out to find him by any means necessary, she starts a journey unfamiliar to someone who doesn’t normally leave the house more than once a decade. She doesn’t expect those means to include a corrupt supernatural government claiming to keep the peace, an array of questionable allies and someone she might even consider a friend at the end of the journey. With Leo’s life in her hands, along with the balance of the supernatural world and her own neck, Ethel will have to do the one thing she’s avoided for centuries: trust someone. Thank you for your time and consideration. The full manuscript is available upon request.